How Traditional Methods Outperformed Modern Policing

In 2005, I was doing business in Ile Ife and became friends with some officers at Moore Police Station. They once left a large sum of staff salaries locked inside the station. By morning, the money had vanished. No forced entry was found and no one claimed responsibility. With modern methods at a dead end, they called in a Babalawo. He used IFA odu and rituals over the vault and the money reappeared the next day. All officers on duty were dismissed. On another occasion, a friend’s laptop was stolen in Mayfair, Ile Ife. The thief hid among many tenants and could not be traced. Rather than go to the police, my friend consulted an Osanyin priest near the palace. He followed the priest’s instructions and paid a fee. Days later, a cushioned bag was flung over the compound wall. Inside was his laptop, returned by an unseen hand. I’ve heard of other cases where thieves returned stolen items on their own. With this in mind, can groups like OPC under Aare Gani Adams or Iru Ekun under Chief Sunday Igboho use such traditional methods combined with force to rescue kidnapped children in Oyo State? The answer is yes. Yet the federal government shuns these approaches. Instead, it clings to political correctness even as more than 40 innocent people remain in danger.

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